Savings bank



s. ROSENTHAL SAVINGS BANK Filed April 10. 1922 2' Sheets-Sheet 1 .Z'Nyewroe Samuel Rose/1 fha/ 3y rroe/vs Y.

Dec. 8, 1925.

S, ROSENTHAL SAVINGS BANK Filed April 10. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I/VP/VTOE ue/ Rosemfha/ f GENE Y Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL BOSENTI-IAL, on ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AssIeNon'ro NATIONAL ooIN CALEN- DAR CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

SAVINGS QBANK.

Application filed April 10, 1922. Serial No. 551,414.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SABHIEL ROSENTHAL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Savings Banks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates generally to coin receptacles and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful improvement in coinreceptacles of the type commonly known as savings-banks;

The chief object of my present invention is to provide a neat, compact, inexpensive, and readily portable combined savings-bank and calendar adapted especially for distribution by savings institutions and the like to encourage thrift and the saving of money by their customers and depositors, the present bank forming a convenient receptacle for the deposit and accumulation by the customer or depositor of relatively small coins to be subsequently depositedas a lump sum in the savings institution to the credit of the customer or depositor, the opening of the bank for removal of the coins accumumy present invention resides in the novel lated therein being controlled entirely by thesavings institution, and the calendar of the bank being automatically operable upon the insertion of successive coins into the receptacle, to visually remind the customer or depositor to daily deposit, and thereby save, a coin in the bank.

\Vith the above and'other objectsin View,

features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and afterwards pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a combined savings bank and calendar embodying my invention;

Figure 2 1s a side elevational view of the bank with its face or dial cover-plate re moved, as indicated by the line 55, FigureS;

Figure 6 is a front elevational view of the savings bank with both the face or dial cover-plate and the calendar dials or disks removed; and

Figure 7 is a fragmental perspective view of the savings bank, showing the lockingxor separable connection between, and at one end of, the members forming the coinreceptacle proper of the bank.

Referring now more in detail to the said drawings, which illustrate a practical embodiment of my invention and in which like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views, the combined bank and calendar has preferably the form or shape best seen in Figure 1 and comprises a casing or a coin receptacle proper of complementing front and rear oppositely disposed marginally flanged sections 1 and 2, respectively, the front section 1 being adapted to removably flt at a portion of its flange 3 within the confines of the flange 4 of the rear section 2, as best seen in Figures 2, l, and The front section 1 is provided at the upper portion of its flange f3 with a downturned lip:5 and at the lower portion of its flange 3 with a pair of downturned spaced lips 6,6, which latter lips are adapted to removably fit in slots 77 provided in the lower portion of flange 4 of rear section 2 and the upper lip 5 being adapted for releasable engagement by a suitable preferably key-operated "latch or look member 8 operably mounted upon rear section 2 as best seen in Figures 2 and a, for separably or detachably locking the sections 1 and 2 together in coin receptacle-forming relation. Suitably formed in the flange 3 of front section 1 adjacent the upper end of the bank, as best seen in Figure 2, is a slot 9 through which the coins to be accumulated within the bank may be conveniently inserted.

Disposed relatively flatwise to, and suitably mounted for rotation upon, the front face of section 1, as "best seen in Figures 3, it, and 6, is an upper disk or wheel '10 and a lower disk or wheel 11. Upon its margin, upper disk: 10 is provided with ratchet teeth 12, preferably seven in number, and fixed upon disk 10 is a dial vl3 bearing upon its face suitable indicia, such as, for instance, the abbreviations of the names of the days of the week from Sun. to Sat, both inclusive, arranged in regular order and spatially related to correspond with the spacing and number of the teeth 12. The lowerdisk or Wheel 11 is relatively larger than upper disk or wheel 10 and is likewise provid d upon its margin with an annular series of teeth 1 1-, preferably thirty-one in number; and fixed upon lower disk 11 is asecond dial 15 bearing indicia, such as, for instance, the numerals 1 to 31, both inclusive, corresponding to the days of the month, arranged in regular consecutive order and spatially related to correspond with the spacing and number of the teeth 11.

Integral with, or otherwise fixed to, and forming a guide-way longitudinally and somewhat obliquely disposed to the front face of front section 1, are spaced pairs of angle members 16, 16, and'disposed for slid. able movement in such guide-way, is an ap proximately flat bar 17 yieldingly held and retained in lower or so-called normal position, as illustrated in Figure 3, by means of a spring or the like 18. At its upper portion, as best seen in Figures -3 and (3, the front section 1 is longitudinally and obliquely slotted, as at 19, to accommodate a pin or stud 20, projecting rearwardly from bar 17; and pivotal ly mounted, as at 21, l for movement upon the rear face of the front portion of section 1 is a substantially bell-crank lever 22, one arm or portion of which is forked or bifurcated, as at 23, and engages pin 20, as illustrated in dotted lines in Figures 3 and 6. The other portion or arm of lever 22 is disposed snugly, but movably, in the coin slot 9 and thereby forms substantially a closer for the slot, as best seen in Figure 5.

Pivoted for movement upon the bar 17, are spaced spring-pressed pawls 2 1 and 25 adapted, when the bar 17 is upwardly actuated as hereinafter more fully appears, for engagement, respectively, with the teeth 12 and 14, of the disks 10 and 11., respectively, for rotarily advancing each of the dials 13 and 15 one tooth or day.

Also disposed relatively flatwise to, and likewise mounted for manual rotation upon, the front face of section 1 approximately intermediate the day and date dials l3 and 15, respectively, is a third wheel 26 carrying a dial 27 bearing upon its face suitable indicia, such as, the abbreviations of the names of the months of the year from Jan. to Dee, both inclusive, arranged in suitably spaced consecutive order.

Enclosing the front section 1 of the coinreceptacle proper, and the several dials 13, 15, and 27, and the operating means therefor mounted upon said front section 1 and engaging the forward edge of the rear section 2 of the coinreceptacl.e, as best seen in Figure 2, is a third or so-called cover section 28, formed or provided with suitable sight apertures or openings 29, through which a particular day, date and month of the dials 12, 15 and 27 are visible, as illustrated in Figure 1.

In use and practice, the present bank is designed especially, as I have before mentioned, for use by savings institutions to encourage thrift and the saving of money by its customers or depositors. To such end, the bank is loaned or given the customer, the key for actuating the lock 8, to enable withdrawal of the accun'iulated coins, being retained by an oiiicial of the institution. The bank being so in use by a customer, it will be evident that, as a coin is inserted into slot 9, the coin will engage with the slot-closing portion of the lever 22, the lever 22 thereby pivotally actuated, the bar 17, through the engagement of the bifurcated portion of lever 22 with said pin 20, yieldingly moved upwardly or into the position thereof illus trated in Figure 6, and the day and date dials 13 and 15, through engagement therewith by the pawls 2 1 and 25, as also illustrated in F igure 6, rotarily advanced one day, as I have before described, the coin, in turn, falling into the coin-receptacle and the lever 22 and bar 17 with its pawls 2 1 and 25, returning under the pull or tension of spring 18 to normal position. The day and date dials 1S and 15 are thus automatically and successively actuated in unison on each deposit of a coin within the receptacle and serve, in order that they may agree and exhibit the proper day and date, to effectively remind the customer to make the required saving each day.

At the end of the month, the bank is delivered by the customer to the particular savings institution, sections 1 and 2 forming the coin-receptacle disconnected or unlocked, the accumulated coins deposited in a lump sum in the institution to the credit of the customer, the face or cover section 28 removed from about the dial carrying section 1, the day and date dials 13 and 15, as well as the month dial 27 manually reset, as required, to again exhibit the proper day, date, and month, the coin-receptacle forming sections 1 and 2 replaced and relocked, the section 28 also replaced in dial covering position upon section 1, and the bank again given the customer for repeated use.

As best seen in Figures 3 and 6, a spring 30 is suitably mounted upon the front section 1' to engage the teeth 1a of disk 11 to yieldingly hold the dials l3 and 15 and the bar 17 against actuation without the actual deposit of a coin within the receptacle; and short partition 31 is preferably fixed within the coin-receptacle section 1, as best seen in Figure 5, to prevent interference with the successive operations of lever 22 by the coins accumulated within the receptacle.

My new bank is preferably of such relatively small size and dimension as to conveniently fit in a coat pocket, and is thus readily portable by the customer to and from the savings institution. The bank is neat and compact in appearance, and thus, in addition to efficiently and positively per-torming its function of a savings and thrift l'iabit-creating bank, provides a useful and attractive ornamental calandar for a desk, table, or the like,

It will, of course, be understood that my new bank may be made or constructed for receiving and actuation by, coins of different denon'iil'iations, each particular bank being designed for use with, and actuation by, coins of like denomination, and that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts oi the bank may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Av savings-bank comprising a casing having a coin-slot and an elongated pin slot, in combination with a dial. mounted for rotation upon the casing, and means for rotarily actuating the dial upon the inser' tion of a coin into the casing through the coin-slot, said means including a bar slidable upon the outer surface of the casing, a pin"on the bar projecting through the pin-slot, a. pawl mounted upon the bar adapted for actuating engagement with the dial, and a bell-crank lever pivoted for oscillation upon the under surface of the casing and having one slotted arm in constant bar actuating engagement with said pin, the other arm being disposed adjacent said coin-slot for actuating engagement by the inserted coin.

2. A savings-bank comprising a casing having a coinslot and an elongated pin-slot, in combination with a dial mounted for rotation upon the casing, means for rotarily actuating the dial upon the insertion of a coin into the casing through the coin-slot, said means including abar slida-ble upon the outer surface otthe casing, a pin on the bar projecting through the pin-slot, a pawl mounted upon the bar adapted for actuating engagement with the dial, and a bell-crank lever pivoted for oscillation upon the under surface of the casing and having one slotted arm in constant bar actuating engagement with said pin, the other arm being disposed adjacent said coin-slot for actuating engagement by the inserted coin, and means having engagement with the dial for yieldingly holding the dial against rotation.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

SAMUEL R-O SENTHAL. 

